We prohibit targeting individuals with repeated slurs, tropes or other content that intends to dehumanize, degrade or reinforce negative or harmful stereotypes about a protected category. This includes targeted misgendering or deadnaming of transgender individuals.

“Misgendering” is when one person refers to another with the wrong gender, like calling a woman “he” or “a man.” “Deadnaming” is using a trans person’s former first name.

While misgendering can be accidental, Twitter banned misgendering with the intent to demean trans people. That’s because intentional misgendering is a tool used by transphobes to insult and silence transgender people.

The new policy was welcomed on Twitter.

Oh my! So much wailing and gnashing of teeth – not forgetting hand-wringing and general woe-is-me-ing over Twitter's long overdue decision to treat deadnaming and misgendering as a serious bootable offense.

This is likely old news to most of the trans community by now, but for everyone else, you can now report someone for deliberately misgendering trans people (using the wrong pronouns) or deadnaming them (using their old name).

So Twitter is now banning people for stating the basic scientific fact that men are men and women are women, and that men cannot become women simply by thinking themselves so. Twitter vs. reality. https://t.co/Ur6ap8zNUN